{"id":34227,"date":"2019-10-16T07:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=34227"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T04:48:52","slug":"banyule-council-renewables-mb1254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/banyule-council-renewables-mb1254\/","title":{"rendered":"Banyule City Council Seeking Feedback On Carbon Neutral Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/banyule-carbon-neutral.png\" alt=\"Banyule Council carbon neutrality\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/banyule-carbon-neutral.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/banyule-carbon-neutral-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/banyule-carbon-neutral-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/banyule-carbon-neutral-1024x538.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s Banyule City Council aims to achieve carbon neutrality in relation to its own operations by 2028 and has released a draft plan outlining steps towards achieving the goal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Banyule City Council local government area (LGA) is situated in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and is home to more than 121,000. Among its suburbs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/ivanhoe-3079-vic\/\">Ivanhoe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/montmorency-3094-vic\/\">Montmorency<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/viewbank-3084-vic\/\">Viewbank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Council has had its eye on carbon neutrality for some time &#8211; its Energy Saving Plan 2014-2017 noted a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2019\/20 for Council operations; which was perhaps a little over-ambitious. It is now aiming for carbon neutrality by 2028 in terms of emissions within its direct control; and without the use of offsets.<\/p>\n<p>A draft plan released on Monday for comment notes 9 priority actions; among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reducing energy use in buildings by upgrading insulation, air conditioning, lighting and appliances, plus installing solar hot water systems.<\/li>\n<li>Working towards replacing Council&#8217;s entire light and heavy vehicle fleet with electric or other zero emissions vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>Pursuing renewable energy generation, including solar energy and wind power. This will either be through Council-owned installations or power purchasing agreements (PPAs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Council has already installed solar panels on a number of buildings it owns or leases, but I wasn&#8217;t able to find a list of installations or total solar power capacity. Its capital works program for the 2017\/18 financial year noted $100,000 earmarked for solar panels on council buildings, community halls, sports pavilions and child care centres. A separate entry notes solar panels for Ivanhoe Aquatic Centre.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the total amount solar installed in the LGA, APVI indicates it was approximately 23.2MW as at June 30 this year. 18.3MW of that was small-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar<\/a> (&lt;10kW systems).<\/p>\n<p>Banyule City Council is <a href=\"https:\/\/shaping.banyule.vic.gov.au\/CorpEmissionsReduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inviting feedback<\/a> on its <a href=\"https:\/\/shaping.banyule.vic.gov.au\/download_file\/1744\/775?_ga=2.62199212.1812668742.1571167203-665929349.1571167203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft plan<\/a>, which needs to be submitted by November 8, 2019.<\/p>\n<h2>Banyule Declares Climate Emergency<\/h2>\n<p>In other recent news from the LGA, Banyule Council declared a climate emergency at its meeting last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Banyule Council is proud to join with the Climate Emergency movement and will continue to act to ensure a safe and sustainable world now, and in the future,&#8221; said Banyule Mayor Cr Wayne Phillips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of publishing, <a href=\"https:\/\/climateemergencydeclaration.org\/climate-emergency-declarations-cover-15-million-citizens\/\">62 councils across Australia<\/a> had declared climate emergencies, covering a quarter of Australia&#8217;s population. The pace of declarations has picked up dramatically &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/councils-climate-emergency-mb1174\/\">back in August<\/a> the number was 34.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, what is claimed to be the biggest parliamentary e-petition in Australian history closes just before midnight tonight &#8211; and it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/petition_sign?id=EN1041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> call for the House of Representatives<\/a> to declare a climate emergency. At the time of publishing, 352,763 Australians had signed the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria&#8217;s Banyule City Council aims to achieve carbon neutrality in relation to its own operations by 2028 and has released a draft plan outlining steps towards achieving the goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":34228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Banyule City Council Seeking Feedback On Carbon Neutral Goal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s Banyule City Council aims to achieve carbon neutrality for its operations by 2028 and has released a draft plan outlining steps towards the goal.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/banyule-council-renewables-mb1254\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banyule City Council Seeking Feedback On Carbon Neutral Goal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s Banyule City Council aims to achieve carbon neutrality for its operations by 2028 and has released a draft plan outlining steps towards the goal.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/banyule-council-renewables-mb1254\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-15T20:37:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-03T04:48:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/banyule-carbon-neutral.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/banyule-council-renewables-mb1254\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/banyule-council-renewables-mb1254\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Banyule City Council Seeking Feedback On Carbon Neutral Goal\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-15T20:37:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-03T04:48:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/banyule-council-renewables-mb1254\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":446,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/banyule-council-renewables-mb1254\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/banyule-carbon-neutral.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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